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  • Design Estere Betija Grāvere

  • Opening of the project. From the left: Terēze Šulca, Kristīne Ercika, Māra Žeikare, Lība Bērziņa. Photo: Kristīne Madjare

  • First workshop in Antūži school with artist Anda Lāce. Photo: Aija Putniņa

  • Workshop with artist Eva Vēvere in elgava Spidola Gymnasium.

  • Residency workshop led by artist Kristīne Brīniņa in Liepāja Catholic school

  • Residency workshop with artists Maksims Šenteļevs and Arturs Punte in Strenči school

  • Workshop with artist Gundega Evelone in Bolderāja school. Photo: Lana Zujeva

  • School children from Bolderāja school visiting exhibition "Sneakers. Eko x Ego" in Riga with artist Gundega Evelone. Photo: Lita Millere

  • School children from Jelgava visiting exhibition "Sneakers. Eko x Ego" in Riga with artist Eva Vēvere. Photo: Lita Millere

  • Sneak peak in the created artworks from Eva Vēvere residency in Jelgava Spīdola gymnasium. Photo: Evelīna Andžāne

Artist is present - contemporary art residencies in schools

On January 12, 2023 the opening event of the project Artist is Present – Contemporary Art Residencies in Schools, initiated with the support of the EEA grants program, took place at the Riga Art Space gallery hosting the Decolonial Ecologies exhibition. We invite you to watch a live recording of the event here.


As part of the project, seven artists will spend a lot of time at schools across Latvia in 2023, including the cultural regions of Kurzeme, Vidzeme, Zemgale, Latgale and Sēlija as well as Rīga, the Latvian capital.

As part of the project:


- Artists will hold residencies at schools, introducing students to contemporary art and developing ideas by way of research and mutual collaboration. These will result in collective pieces of contemporary art which will be displayed at the International Contemporary Art Festival Survival Kit 14.
- All of the artists and students partaking in the project will also meet at a creative summer camp held in 2023 in Valmiera.
- As part of a special mentorship program, Latvian artists, together with the TENTHAUS art collective from Oslo, Norway, are gaining experience and practical know-how on working with students and teachers in the long term.
- The results of the project – methods and creative techniques – will be collected in a special teaching aid / publication that will come in handy for Latvian teachers as they create content for learning about and integrating contemporary art into the study program in the time to come.


Since 2013, LCCA has been working systematically in creating educational programs for children and youth audiences in the center’s exhibitions and the Survival Kit festival, making guides, print materials and tours as well as conducting creative workshops. In 2019, LCCA launched the Take Your Class to the Master Class project with the support of the Creating Content for the 'Latvian School Bag' program of the State Culture Capital Foundation. As part of it, eleven artists visited more than 30 schools across Latvia, and they were met particularly warmly in the regions where contemporary art is all but inaccessible. The idea of the project The Artist is Present is based on the experience acquired during these journeys and is propelled by the artists’ desire to create closer and more sustainable ties with the student audience.


The artists partaking in the project: Kristīne Brīniņa, Vika Eksta, Gundega Evelone, Anda Lāce, Eva Vēvere, Artūrs Punte, and Maksims Šenteļevs.
The project is managed by Māra Žeikare.

The project The Artist is Present – Contemporary Art Residencies in Schools (No.EEZ/2022/2/27) was started in the framework of the Local Development, Poverty Reduction and Cultural Cooperation program of the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism for the 2014-2021 period as part of the open call “Support for the Creation of Professional Art and Cultural Products for Children and Youth”. The project is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through EEA Grants. The total eligible costs of the project is 228 713.36 EUR, of which the EEA covers 194 406.36 EUR while the national co-financing is 34 307.00 EUR. The project aims to promote the participation of Latvian children and youth into processes of contemporary art.


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More information about the project:

eeagrants.lv
https://eeagrants.lv/en/2022/09/12/the-artist-is-present-contemporary-art-residencies-in-schools/


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